 | Rape on Trial: How the Mass Media Construct Legal Reform and Social Change Subjects: Rape in mass media -- United States; Rape -- Law and legislation -- United States; Women -- Crimes against -- United States; Trials (Rape) -- United States; Crime and the press -- United States; United States -- Social conditions -- 1980–; Rape on Trial provides insight into the different roles news coverage and fictionalized texts play in adjudicating between traditional views of rape and those advanced by advocates of rape law reform. Lisa M. Cuklanz is Chair of the Women's Studies Program and Associate Professor of Communication at Boston College. She is on the board of directors of the Radcliffe Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies and the author of Rape on Prime TimeTrial: How the Mass Media Construct Legal Reform and Social Change, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. |
